Ashley Barnes admits he can’t speak highly enough of Burnley boss Scott Parker.
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The 44-year-old led the Clarets back to the Premier League at the first attempt in his first season in charge, overseeing a 100-point Championship campaign.
Parker, who has now won three promotions from the second tier, is now tasked with keeping Burnley in the Premier League.
Such is the bond between Parker and his players, they feel as though they’ve let him down if they’re not able to perform.
“I’ve literally loved my time,” the 35-year-old told Clarets+.
"Obviously there’s the six months that I’ve had with him and I’ve now extended, so I will learn a lot off the gaffer.
Barnes recently extended his Turf Moor stay by penning a new one-year deal (Photo by Lewis Storey/Getty Images)placeholder image
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"His speeches are phenomenal, they have you gripped. He's obviously been in the game for a long time...what an unbelievable player as well, so he's giving that back to us as well with his journey.
“That's something that is always amazing for us as players to have that rapport with a manager. It's amazing what a career he had and now he’s giving us that insight into what he was like as a player.
"You never want to let him down one bit. If you made one bad pass in a game, all you have in the back of your head is like: ‘damn, I’ve let the gaffer down, I want to put it right for him’. That is how he makes you feel, he makes you feel so good and that's so important.”
Such is Parker’s influence, the Clarets boss was able to oversee one of the tightest changing rooms Burnley has seen in recent years.
“That is one of the things that I touched on last season,,” Barnes added. “How the gaffer had built that, it was phenomenal.
"He’s done such an amazing job to give us the licence to have the freedom, to have that energy and the spirit to go and challenge us, to put high demands on us every day in training and it showed in games and luckily enough we repaid him.”
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